![]() Y: The Last Man takes place after the simultaneous, horrific death of every mammal on Earth with a Y chromosome, except for Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer), a white cisgender man, and his pet Capuchin monkey, Ampersand - two almost comically unremarkable males with no immediately discernible reason for survival. ![]() In the years between the debut of the comic book Y: The Last Man and the new FX on Hulu series that shares its name, entertaining the idea of a world without men has taken on a very different tenor. Other societal changes unfolding in parallel have shifted our language, our hiring practices, and our circles of influence so that these events are increasingly considered through the voices of those they have the most impact on. Over the last 20 years, an assault on reproductive rights, a Supreme Court Justice nomination that served as grim shorthand for male impunity, and an activist movement borne from a sprawling Hollywood scandal have helped fundamentally change how gender is discussed in America. ![]() The premise - what would the world look like if every man on Earth died simultaneously, except one? - takes on entirely different implications in 2021. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra launched a thought experiment in the form of the comic book Y: The Last Man. ![]() It’s true in comedy as well as catastrophe: Timing is everything. ![]()
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